1. The Movement to End Slavery
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2. Abolition Movement to end slavery on moral grounds
Some called for immediate emancipation (freedom), others for gradual.
Abolitionists had different views
Some supported freedom, but not equality for Blacks

3. By 1833 & 1848, Both Britain & France had outlawed Slavery

4. Colonization Movement
Short lived movement to send free-blacks to Africa
Many blacks rejected it, feeling that they should have a share in America’s wealth.

5. Northern Abolitionists
Anti-Slavery speeches, newspapers, & literature
William Lloyd Garrison: founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society,
Published the Liberator
Allowed Women a major role = caused a split

6. Abby Kelley Foster

7. 2 White southern abolitionists who wrote famous essays against slavery
Grimké Sisters
2 White southern abolitionists who wrote famous essays against slavery

8. African American Voices
Most powerful Anti-Slavery activists
Many former slaves wrote narratives & went on speaking tours.

9. Frederick Douglass Most famous Black Abolitionist
Wrote 4 autobiographies, became world renown
The North Star

10. The Underground Railroad
Network of individuals & safe-houses that helped runaway slaves escape to free Canada.
Harriet Tubman :most famous “conductor,” helped up to 300 slaves escape

13. Slavery had many Supporters
Slaves were seen as property, not people
The Bible & ancient Greece/Rome has many examples of slavery
Many northerners supported it for racist & economic reasons

14. Mobs often attacked abolitionists
Southern writer George Fitzhugh
slavery was necessary for the black race
they lived better than northern wage-earners